Alexandre Bida

{{Multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=November 2025}} {{Notability|date=November 2025}} {{refimprove|date=November 2025}} }} {{Short description|French painter (1813–1895)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Alexandre Bida | image = Alexandre Bida-cdv.jpg | imagesize = | Alias = | caption = Alexandre Bida, ca 1855 | birth_name = | birth_date = 1813 | birth_place = Toulouse, France | death_date = 1895 | death_place = Buhl, German Empire | nationality = | field = Painting | training = | movement = | works = }} '''Alexandre Bida''' (3 October 1813 – 2 January 1895) was a French painter.<ref>[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/bida_alexandre.html Alexandre Bida]</ref>

==Life== He was born in Toulouse, and specialized in Orientalism and studied under Eugène Delacroix, but with an artist's eye for precision and perfection, he soon developed his own style. During Bida's youth, he traveled and worked in Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, and Palestine. He became well known for his exhibition shows during the period between 1847 and 1861. He was also an illustrator of the Holy Bible. As a Bible illustrator, Bida's ''Les Saints Evangeles'' was published in 1873. In it, the four gospels were enriched by his twenty-eight etchings.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/christinartstory00egglrich Christ in art: the story of the words and acts of Jesus Christ, as related in the language of the four evangelists, arranged in one continuous narrative (1873)]</ref>

Of Bida's work, it was said{{who|date=February 2024}} that he brought a truth and genius that made his Christ reverent, refined, dignified, and strong. He died in Buhl, Germany in 1895 at the age of 82.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=AetBAAAAYAAJ&dq Christendom Anno Domini MDCCCCI]</ref>

==Gallery== <gallery> File:Alexandre Bida - And Jesus Said - This Day is Salvation Come to This House - Walters 37910.jpg|''And Jesus Said: This Day is Salvation Come to This House'', crayon paper, 62.8 × 48 cm, crayon on paper. Walters Art Museum. File:Alexandre Bida - At the Fountain - Walters 371115.jpg|''At the Fountain'', 19th century, ink with scraping on cream, 22.7 x 25.2 cm. Walters Art Museum. File:Alexandre Bida - Interior - Woman Kneeling at Prie-dieu - Walters 371415.jpg|''Woman Kneeling at Prie-dieu'', 1865 File:Bida - Frédéric et Bernerette.jpg|''Frédéric and Bernerette'' File:Alexandre Bida - A seated Albanian soldier.jpg|An Albanian soldier File:Jesus eats with sinners and tax collectors.png|''Jesus eating with sinners and tax-collectors'' File:Jesus heals the leper.png|''Jesus heals the leper'' File:Nicodemus Jesus.jpg|''Jesus and Nicodemus'', 1874 File:Miracle Fishes.jpg|The miracle of the fishes File:Parable Sower.jpg|The parable of the sower </gallery>

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== External links == * [http://www.cahiers-naturalistes.com/pages/Bida.html ALEXANDRE BIDA (1813 – 1895) BIOGRAPHY (''French'')] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809104602/http://www.cahiers-naturalistes.com/pages/Bida.html |date=2019-08-09 }} * [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/bida_alexandre.html ARTCYCLOPEDIA] * [http://www.photo.rmn.fr/c/htm/home.aspx?FR=T RMN PHOTO AGENCY] * [http://www.rmn.fr/ EUROMUSE.NET] * [http://www.wcg.org/lit/images/ab/index.htm THE WORLD CHURCH - ALEXANDRE BIDA RELIGIOUS ARTWORK] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528191836/http://www.wcg.org/lit/images/ab/index.htm |date=2014-05-28 }}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bida, Alexandre}} Category:19th-century French painters Category:French male painters Category:1813 births Category:1895 deaths Category:Artists from Toulouse Category:Painters from Occitania (administrative region) Category:19th-century French etchers Category:French illustrators Category:19th-century French male artists